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Hello, |
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Blocking means that a package prevents other package from being installed. |
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I guess you already figured that out... :) |
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Quote from man pages should be quite clear (if not, ask :), it follows. |
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>From man emerge |
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[blocks B ] app-text/dos2unix (from pkg app-text/hd2u-0.8.0) |
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Dos2unix is Blocking hd2u from being emerged. Blockers are |
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defined when two packages will clobber each others files, or |
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otherwise cause some form of breakage in your system. However, |
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blockers usually do not need to be simultaneously emerged |
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because they usually provide the same functionality. |
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When I've got a block, I unmerge the blocking package (emerge -C ftpbase |
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in your case) and then emerge package I originally wanted (emerge proftpd). |
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I'm not sure if there's an other way to do this, but just unmerging has |
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worked for me so far. |
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Olli Koskela |
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okoskela@×××××××××××××××××.com |
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Quoting Jayson Smith <jaybird@×××××××××××××.info>: |
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> Hi, |
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> Several days ago I did an 'emerge --ask --nospinner -u world' to update my |
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> software as normal, but was told that ftpbase-0.00 was blocking |
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> proftpd-1.something. What, exactly, does this mean and what do I do about |
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> it? I want to continue using Proftpd, and don't know what Ftpbase is. Any |
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> help would be greatly appreciated. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Jayson. |
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